Pasquale Menna

Pasquale Menna (1954-) was a Mayor of Red Bank, New Jersey (D). Menna was born in Naples, Italy, but he later emigrated to the United States and went to Red Bank Regional High School in Red Bank, New Jersey. He then studied at George Washington University and American University, becoming a lawyer in Red Bank. In 2013, after 35 years of practicing law (including over 25 years of serving as a municipal prosecutor in Monmouth County), Menna was elected Mayor of Red Bank. He was a supporter of the African-American community, lauding how Black Panther actor Winston Duke referred to African-Americans as "the diaspora", and drawing connections between how Italian-Americans lost touch with their Italian culture in the same way that African-Americans lost touch with their African culture. However, he condemned Italian patriots such as Giuseppe Garibaldi and Giuseppe Mazzini as murderous dictators who ordered crimes against humanity in the Two Sicilies, and foreign mercenaries comparable to Benito Mussolini in evil.